ALTON — The Prospect Mountain High School boys soccer team is getting hot at the right time.The Timberwolves won five of their last six games in the regular season, including Friday’s 4-0 victory over Somersworth that was played in a steady rain and also avenged an earlier loss to the Hilltoppers.Prospect could be seeded as high as eighth and will open tournament play next Thursday on the road.Somersworth entered Friday’s contest heading in the opposite direction. The Hilltoppers had dropped four of their previous five matches and needed to beat Prospect to clinch a playoff berth.“We gave it a valiant effort,” said Somersworth coach Matt Carrington. “We gave it everything that we had. It was do or die for us. If we win we’re in and if we lose we go home. We tried to go big and it didn’t work out for us today, unfortunately.”Trailing 1-0 at halftime, the Hilltoppers were still within range of keeping their postseason hopes alive until the Timberwolves scored twice in the first eight minutes of the second half to create some space.“That was really good,” said Prospect striker Marc Fernandez, a foreign exchange student from Spain who scored the game’s first goal and assisted on two others. “I always think it’s important to score (at) the beginning of the first half because you break the other team.”Prospect, which improved to 9-6-1 in Division III, added an insurance tally with four minutes left to make it 4-0.Somersworth, which was shut out for the third time in four matches, finished 5-11. “They have a lot of really talented players,” said Carrington, whose club beat Prospect earlier in the year 1-0 with a tight defensive effort. “They’re a good team. I thought they played pretty well today. We did our best to stay with them. We had to push up a little bit more on offense and put a little more emphasis on that because we needed to get something other than a loss today.”The game was still scoreless when Fernandez connected with 14:32 left in the first half.“I think we play a really good match,” Fernandez said. “The grass was really wet so it was a pretty fast game. It was a tough game. They were pretty fast and they had some good opportunities, but we know how to put the ball in the net and made (the most of) our opportunities.” Stationed at the edge of the 18, Fernandez took a pass from Ken Gilbert and one-touched a left-footer off the outstetched hands of Hilltopper keeper Brodie Lajoie and just under the crossbar to give the Timberwolves all the offense they needed.“I thought we had some pretty good chances in the first half,” Carrington said. “It could have been equalized or we could have been up 1-0 at halftime but it didn’t work out like that. In monsoon conditions anything can happen. It’s really unpredictable. We gutted it out. We just happened to be on the wrong end today.” Prospect quickly built on the lead early in the second half. Alex Bennett struck five minutes into the second and Ken Gilbert made it 3-0 less than three minutes later by converting a crossing pass from Fernandez.“They passed the ball very well,” said Prospect coach Gary Noyes Sr., “and distributed the ball to each other. They basically kept it down and worked some nice combinations.”It was the third shutout in the last four games for Prospect Mountain.“The defense came up big when it had to,” Noyes said, “and Jake (Towle) made some nice saves.”Prospect’s Jake Troy capped some fancy footwork in the box with a high finish with four minutes remaining in the second half to make it 4-0.It was a just reward for the Timberwolves’ co-captain, who had several good scoring chances in the first half but didn’t finish.He sent one shot just inches over the crossbar early in the first half and then hit the post with another bid late in the first.“We’re playing really good,” Fernandez said. “If we keep playing as team I think we can do (well) in the playoffs.”